Prince Chichibu Rugby Stadium

Prince Chichibu Rugby Stadium 秩 父 宮 ラ グ ビ ー 場
View of the east stand during a university game between Waseda and Keiō .
Earlier names
Tokyo Rugby Stadium (1947–1953)
Data
place	Minato , Tokyo Prefecture , Japan
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owner	Nihon Sports Shinko Center
operator	Nihon Sports Shinko Center
start of building	1947
opening	November 1947
Renovations	1973, 2003
surface	Natural grass
capacity	27,188 seats
Societies)
Sunwolves
Events
Japan Sevens (since 2011) Games of the Top League IRB U20 Junior World Championship 2009

The Prince Chichibu Rugby Stadium ( Japanese 秩 父 宮 ラ グ ビ ー 場 , Chichibu no miya ragubī-jō ) is a rugby stadium for around 25,000 spectators in Kita- Aoyama , Minato in the Japanese prefecture of Tokyo . It is the venue for the Japan Sevens , which will be held again from 2011 , and it is also used for Top League games. It is named after Major General of the Army Prince Chichibu Yasuhito , who promoted rugby in the post-war period. The stadium is owned and operated by the Nihon Sports Shinko Center .

The stadium was built in 1947 on the site of the women's Gakushūin , which burned down in an air raid in 1945 , and opened in November 1947 as the Tokyo rugby stadium ( 東京 ラ グ ビ ー 場 , Tōkyō ragubī-jō ). In 1953, after the death of Prince Chichibus, then president of the Japanese Rugby Federation, it was given its current name. It was used for soccer competitions at the 1964 Summer Olympics . It was rebuilt several times, most recently in 2003. In 2009 it was the venue for the new IRB U20 Junior World Championship, which in 2008 replaced the old U19 and U21 tournaments.

In addition to the Kintetsu Hanazono rugby stadium in Osaka prefecture, it is considered the “Mecca” of Japanese rugby, together they are called Nishi no Hanazono, Higashi no Chichibu-no-miya ( 西 の 花園 ・ 東 の 秩 父 宮 , dt. About “ In the west the Hanazono, in the east the Prince Chichibu [stadium] ”).

Web links

Commons : Prince Chichibu Rugby Stadium  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Nihon Sports Shinkō Center: Prince Chichibu Rugby Stadium (Japanese)
• Japan Rugby Top League: Prince Chichibu Rugby Stadium Location Map (Japanese)

Coordinates: 35 ° 40 ′ 21.4 "  N , 139 ° 43 ′ 5.4"  E